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Nuggin

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Message 1 of 4 (237359)
08-26-2005 1:46 PM

In an attempt to keep other treads on topic, I'm moving this quote from Faith to here.

However, it is you who are in violation of the Ten Commandments if you refuse to support the execution of a violator of those commandments according to God's own Law.

What the Pro-Death people fail to realize is that there are many different reasons to be against the Death Penalty. It's not as simple as "I don't think the State should execute people." Though that position is certainly valid.

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Message 2 of 4 (237526)
08-26-2005 7:35 PM

Reply to: Message 1 by Nuggin
08-26-2005 1:46 PM

Needs more

Thanks for the attention to topic control.

This needs work:

Please add some of your discussion.

Suggest where this should be moved to.\

If there was any other discussion leading up to this I might be useful here.

You might want to state some of the "many different reasons" since that would be an obvious first question.

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Message 3 of 4 (237618)
08-27-2005 2:52 AM

Reply to: Message 2 by AdminNosy
08-26-2005 7:35 PM

Re: Needs more

Here's some, but probably not all of the reason to oppose the death penalty.

1) Principle - "I don't think the state should execute prisoners under any circumstances."
2) Economics - "The cost of a trial and appeals in a capital case is prohibative. That money could be spent in much better ways."
3) Failable - "Our legal system has proven to be less than perfect. There have been a number of people found guilty of crimes they did not commit. There is no way to reverse an execution."
4) Cruel & Unusual - "Putting someone to death is both cruel and unusual and therefore prohibited by the 8th amendment."
5) Geo-Political - "Most countries do not have the death penalty and look at our practices as being barbaric."

Anyone wanna take these on or bolster these up? Anyone have ones that I've missed?

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Message 4 of 4 (238402)
08-29-2005 8:57 PM

Thread copied to the Death Penalty thread in the Coffee House forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.

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